Edna Shredder

    Edna Shredder sat at her desk shredding documents for everyone in the office. The pile grew quickly, but she whittled it away steadily and didn't complain. No one paid her much attention; they just walked by and put the documents they needed shredded in her pile.

    One day, though, the front door burst open, and three attackers entered shouting for everyone to remain in their cubicles while they pillaged the office. The rest of the office complied, but not Edna. "Not on my watch" she shouted back as she leapt over her desk with her shredder in hand.

    The top was removed revealing exposed cross-cut shredding blades, the nemesis of any attacker. Edna launched forward, tackling the foremost attacker, and began shredding him. He fought back, but he was no match for her shredder. The other attackers approached to try and help, but Edna flipped backwards off the man, and held her shredder out, viciously threatening to shred anyone else who tried to attack her. The attackers put their hands up and backed up slowly, one of them helping the shredded attacker up, and left the building.

    Edna wiped her brow then returned with her shredder to her desk. She replaced the shredder lid and then resumed shredding her pile of documents. The rest of the office crept from their cubes astonished by what they had just witnessed. Unsure of what to say or do, they too resumed their work as if nothing had happened.